If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.